Midnight Jewels

Bookstore owner Mercy Pennington likes to play it safe, never venturing into anything risky. But when she handles a rare edition of erotica called Valley of Secret Jewels, she cannot anticipate the trouble that Croft Falconer would bring into her life.

A rugged man who prefers the controlled violence of Asian martial arts to literature Falconer becomes angry when he learns Mercy has promised the collector's item to another buyer. He argues with Mercy and offers her a small fortune ... and something more.

Now even as she is drawn into a passionate liaison, Mercy must make her biggest gamble: Can she trust the mysterious Falconer, who will not reveal the dark secret behind a volume of forbidden lust - one that can get them both killed?
-from back cover.